• Dr. B. Sudhakar
• Dr. K.A.Ponnusamy

Abstract The area under cotton in India is the largest and constitutes nearly one-fourth of the World’s cotton area. The cotton productivity in India is abysmally low as compared to many other countries, including our neighbor, Pakistan. Under the impact of green revolution, due to monocropping, there have been many outbreaks of insect pests especially on rice and cotton. To meet these challenges, it is of utmost importance that in future the insect problems would have to be tackled through Integrated Pest Management (IPM). IPM has been defined by Pretty et al (1992) as the integrated use of some or all the pest control strategies in a way that not only reduce pest population to economically acceptable levels but it is and non-polluting. The IPM programme aims at educating the farmers and extension agencies through Farmers Field Schools (FFS). Coimbatore district stands first in total number of IPM-FFS training programmes conducted for cotton throuout the Tamil Nadu State over the years and hence, it was selected for the study. The highest area under cotton and maximum number of IPM -FFS training programmes conducted were considered as the criteria to select the Taluk representing irrigated condition. The same criteria were used for selection of Block where Madukarai block under irrigated condition were selected. This part deals with the specific objective was to study the relationship and influence of profile characteristics with how to do knowledge of IPM oriented cotton growers under irrigated condition. When all the other variables are kept at constant level, a unit increase in educational status, area under cotton cultivation and extension agency contact increase in how to do knowledge by 1.436, 0.522 and 0.2217 units respectively among IPM oriented cotton growers under irrigated condition.

Keywords – Cotton, How to do knowledge, IPM, Rainfed condition.

"Relationship and Influence of Independent Variables on How to Do Knowledge of IPM (integrated pest management) Practices under Irrigated Condition", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.230-232, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901628.pdf

"Relationship and Influence of Independent Variables on How to Do Knowledge of IPM (integrated pest management) Practices under Irrigated Condition", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp230-232, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901628.pdf